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Statistics of abelian varieties over finite fields

Statistics of abelian varieties over finite fields

February 11, 2016 - 04:30
- February 11, 2016 - 05:30

Michael Lipnowski, Duke University

Fine Hall 214

Joint work with Jacob Tsimerman. Let B(g,p) denote the number of isomorphism classes of g-dimensional abelian varieties over the finite field of size p. Let A(g,p) denote the number of isomorphism classes of principally polarized g dimensional abelian varieties over the finite field of size p. We derive upper bounds for B(g,p) and lower bounds for A(g,p) for p fixed and g increasing. The extremely large gap between the lower bound for A(g,p) and the upper bound B(g,p) implies some statistically counterintuitive behavior for abelian varieties of large dimension over a fixed finite field.